Osman, who cops said is 12, but his dad claims is just 11, appeared this afternoon in Staten Island Family Court to face hate crimes charges for Tuesday’s stunning assault at Dreyfus Intermediate School in Stapleton on a 13-year-old girl who attends eighth grade there.

Osman was brought in wearing handcuffs around his tiny wrists. His eyes were red and teary and the boy began to cry once the judge walked into the room.

The prosecutor, Teresa Wilson, argued for remand, saying “the defendant is a public safety risk” and was likely to engage in future acts of delinquency, based on his recent record.

That recent record included an unspecified robbery in which physical force was used that took place on Feb. 3.

He was also cited for three school suspensions, one as early as March 10.

The judge remanded the boy and set an April 5 date for the next hearing.

Osman, who has a history of disciplinary problems at the school, yesterday allegedly began assaulting the Muslim girl just outside the school building with a 13-year-old female accomplice, and tried to rip off the victim’s hijab headdress covering her hair while yelling, “Are you a Muslim?” authorities said.

The girl suffered bruises and a cut lip.

The girl today said, “They called me a terrorist a couple of times. They pulled my hair, and they tried to pull my scarf off, but it didn’t come off I was holding on to it.”

Asked how she felt about her alleged attacker, she said, “I kind of feel bad for him … I think he’s missing his studies.”

But she also added, “I’m afraid they might beat me up again.”

Osman — who emigrated with his family from the African nation of Sierra Leone in 2004 — was arrested and charged with felony assault and aggravated harassment, both as hate crimes.

Cops from the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force are looking for his young accomplice.

The boy, who also faces school disciplinary action, has been tormenting the victim for the last two months, sources said, allegedly shoving, hitting or threatening her on four occasions.

“This child is a terror. He goes around terrorizing staff and students,” said a teacher at Dreyfus.

On Monday, Osman raised hell in one class when he ran amok wielding scissors after using them to cruelly lop off a girl’s hair, sources said. But instead of being booted from school or arrested, Osman was merely “suspended in-house,” a teacher said.

Osman’s behavior is so problematic that officials at one point posted a school safety agent in front of that class just “so the teacher could teach,” a staffer said.

Two weeks ago, Osman was present when five other young punks at the school robbed a deliveryman who was dropping off pizza and soda at an after-school study program, insiders said.

The crooks demanded food and cash from the deliveryman before fleeing with just the food, authorities said. They were busted the next day.

Despite those claims, Osman’s dad Davies today said of his son, “He’s a victim.”

“Trust me, its a black mail, and its not over yet,” Davies said of the allegations. “They’re just out to get him.”

“How can cops look at an 11-year-old boy and say he’s a terrorist? He’s a regular African kid.”

He said that school officials have unfairly targeted Osman since he started attending Dreyfus last fall, with officials constantly calling to report his bad behavior, “over every little thing.” Davies claims that Osman doesn’t have many friends and gets taunted for being African.

“Sometimes he wakes up and says ‘Daddy, I don’t want to go to school,'” Davies said.

The father also mentioned an incident in which a student cut Osman with an unknown object and the teacher brushed it off, saying “they were just playing.”

In another incident, a girl pushed Osman onto the floor, Davies said. But when the boy reported it to the teacher, she ignored him, the dad claimed.

“I guarantee, y’all talk to that little boy, he don’t lie,” Davies said “He’ll tell you outright what happened.”

Davies said Osman was suspended last month, but doesn’t recall why. “Probably some stupid stuff,” he said.

“Me as the father, I didn’t know he was acting bad,” Davies said.

Despite trouble at school he said Osman is a B student, and had no behavioral problems at P.S. 47, where he attended previously attended.

Davies also said Osman never displayed any bad behavior at home.

He has not spoken to his son about what happened yet.

“When he comes home he plays video games, watches cartoons. He’s a good boy.”

The angry dad said that he had already planned on sending Osman back to the family’s native country of Sierra Leone on the west coast of Africa because the young boy has been harassed at school and singled out by teachers.

Davies, who has two other children, both baby girls, displayed a plane ticket for a flight to that country on April 17 to back up his claim.

“I told the school all right, I’m going to send him back to Africa.” He said that when he told the school that the harassment by teachers at Osman increased, the school called him frequently asking when he was going back to Africa

Davies vowed to hire a lawyer, saying , “I’m going after the school, that’s all I know.”

The older sister of Osman’s victim told The Post last night that her sibling “is fine.”

“She was crying at that moment, but she’s OK.”

The sister, who asked that her name not be printed, said the victim called their older brother during the attack.

“My brother is the one who called the police. He got angry, he wanted to beat the kid up, but he is older and decided to call the cops.”